Woodward v. French
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for taking four boxes of window-glass. The defendant plead the general issue, and a special plea in justification, setting forth in substance, that at a legal meeting of the legal voters of school district number seventeen, in Royalton, on the 25th of October, 1856, Phineas D. Pierce, Jireh Tucker and the defendant were duly elected prudential committee of the district, and the defendant was duly elected collector of taxes; that at a legal meeting of the district,…
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Trespass for taking four boxes of window-glass. The defendant plead the general issue, and a special plea in justification, setting forth in substance, that at a legal meeting of the legal voters of school district number seventeen, in Royalton, on the 25th of October, 1856, Phineas D. Pierce, Jireh Tucker and the defendant were duly elected prudential committee of the district, and the defendant was duly elected collector of taxes; that at a legal meeting of the district, held on the 26th of February, 1857, a tax of seventy-four dollars and twenty cents was voted for the purpose of paying…
1Opinion of the CourtPoland, J.
The important question presented by the pleadings in this case is, whether a person resident in a school district on the first day of April, who is assessed as the owner of personal estate, and whose list is designated by the listers as belonging to such district, is liable to pay taxes in such district, while such list continues in force, though he has removed from the district.
The answer to this question must be found by the result of a comparison of all the various provisions of our statutes relating to this subject.
School districts, from the time of the first creation of such corporations…
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- Adams v. HydeSupreme Court of Vermont · 1855
- School District No. 1 v. KittridgeSupreme Court of Vermont · 1855
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